NEWS

June 1, 2004

RSU
Police Officers Receive Advanced Certification

Two
Rogers State University Police Department officers recently received the top
certification from Oklahoma's law enforcement council.

Gary
Boergermann and Grady McFadden are among the select officers in the state who
have earned the Advanced Law Enforcement Professionals Certification from the
Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET). A third
officer, Mike Ault, has completed the qualifications, but hasn't been officially
certified.

The
purpose of CLEET is to enhance public safety and to promote professionalism and
enhance competency within the ranks of Oklahoma law enforcement. To earn the
advanced certification officers must be a paid, full-time officer employed by
either the state or local government.

"The
advanced certification is an achievement, a recognition, and is important for
the university to get the most qualified officers in the state," said
Boergermann, director of the RSU Police Department. One of my goals when I
joined the RSU Police Department was to develop, manage and maintain the best
campus police department in Oklahoma by using educational incentives,
professionally trained officers and staff that recognize the importance of
community-based policing standards and philosophies while creating a force of
informed, supportive and diverse officers who meet the ever-changing needs of
the university."

Boergermann has served as director for more than three years. Ault has served
as an officer for two years, and McFadden for a year. All three are retired
officers from the Tulsa Police Department. Between them, the three officers have
more than 80 years of police experience.

Boergermann has an associate's degree in criminal law from Tulsa Community
College and attended upper division class at the University Center of Tulsa.
McFadden earned an associate's degree in police science from Tulsa Community
College and is pursuing a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from RSU. Ault
has a bachelor's degree in clinical psychology from Southwest Missouri
State-Joplin and 27 hours of graduate studies in psychology and sociology from
Central Missouri State University.

The RSU
Police Department employs four full-time officers. Officer John Akin, who has
served with the campus police since 1996, retired on May 31.